To Plot
Transitive verb and Godan verb
はかる
あいつらはフィレンツェのダビデ像の前でのドラマチックな暗殺を謀っているんだ。
They’re plotting a dramatic assassination in front of the Statue of David in Florence.
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means conspire and the verb vocab version is to conspire or to plot.
A group of hackers (はか) are getting together and trying to conspire and plot to take down the mainframe! Those hackers!